Crazy thing for me. We had to rename the server and then had issues. I tried to do the aspnet_regiis -ga, but that didn't help. The only thing that helped was aspnet_regiis -u. If I unregistered it, the webservices used ASPNET 2.0 just fine. if I register it again they break. Very frustrating issue.

@Anonymous, I don't blame you for being a skeptic. Don't trust everything you read on the web, someone might tell you to do something stupid and open yourself up to attack. But I am glad you gave it a try, and even happier that it worked for you and SO many others.

At my last job this came up on the support forums that I was apart of pretty frequently, so I used my post as a Canned response to the question.

@xjufox - No, I'm sorry I don't have any ideas right now. The only time I ran into the problem is when I installed IIS after I had installed the .Net framework. Also this command is only valid for .Net 2 and I am not sure it will work if you only have .Net 3 or .Net 3.5.

Also as a side note I no longer work for a Windows shop, so I don't really have access to a Windows Server to play with it.

I too owe u some thanks! im new at this and when i saw that error after everything was working great in Visual studio i freaked lol. it looks like all complex just a asp config error tho. thanks a bunch!